Annual Report 2012: Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism In spite of the fact that this internment measure strives to ensure the effective repatriation of foreign citizens, of the total 11,325 foreign inmates, only 5,924 were able to be repatriated, as is shown in the following table. This means that in 2012 over 52% of the foreign inmates have not been deported, with a decrease of more than 7% in comparison to the figures in 2011. The case of the CIE in Las Palmas should be highlighted, with a decrease of over 47%. Table 23. Expulsion of foreign inmates held in CIEs in 2012 Number of inmates Number of deportations Percentage Algeciras 3,262 1,197 36,69 Barcelona 1,933 970 50,18 272 32 11,76 3,023 1,789 59,17 190 128 67,36 1,300 808 62,15 Tenerife 140 28 20 Valencia 1,205 972 80,66 11,325 5,924 52,30 CIE Las Palmas Madrid Malaga* Murcia Total * Until 6/20/2012 when it is closed down. Source: In-house compilation based on data supplied by the Directorate General of the Police. More than 52% of the inmates have not been removed 43. In 2012 a total of 16,401 repatriations of foreign citizens have been regis­ tered, according to data supplied by the Directorate General of the Police. Table 24. Repatriations of irregular foreign nationals in 2011 and 2012 2011 2012 Diferencia Refoulements 7,064 6,271 -793 Unqualified deportations* 2,244 1,321 -923 Qualified deportations*** 9,114 8,809 -305 18,422 16,401 -2,021 Total Source: In-house compilation based on data obtained from the website of the Spanish Ministry of the Interior. * Persons who attempted entry into Spain through posts not authorized as borders. ** Persons intercepted in a Spanish town without documentation. *** “The Spanish Ministry of the Interior set up in 2009 the Spanish National Police Force’s Brigade for Deportation of Foreign Offenders (BEDEX), whose mission is to repatriate foreign offenders with long criminal records and/or convictions (see paragraph 59) related to terrorism, organized gangs, gender-based violence or any other particularly serious criminal activity that pose a threat to public security”. This distinction comes from the explanation of data supplied by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior itself (http://www.interior.gob.es/ file/59/59299/59299.pdf). 64 THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN